Work schedule types

Three schedule types, and the choice follows the workforce rather than a preference. Elapsed schedules — a duration per day, no specific times — suit salaried office workers, where what matters is that Tuesday is a working day, not that it starts at nine. Time schedules carry specific start and end times and suit shift and hourly workers, where the times are the point. Shift-based patterns rotate over a cycle and suit operations, healthcare and manufacturing. The building blocks: shifts, then patterns built from shifts, then the schedule that assembles the patterns. Three layers, built bottom-up. Exceptions are calendar events, which override the schedule. Now the mechanic that confuses everybody, stated explicitly. Schedules can be assigned at several levels — the assignment, the position, the department, the legal employer, the enterprise — and the most specific one wins. A schedule at enterprise level applies to everyone who does not have…

In this module: Module 14 · Workforce Records and Schedules

1. 1Why schedules matter more than they look
2. 2Work schedule types
3. 3Building and assigning work schedules
4. 4Calendar events and the geographic hierarchy
5. 5Configuring calendar events
6. 6Activity centers and workforce scheduling
7. 7Directory and organization chart
8. 8What breaks
9. 9Lab: four working weeks, three years of holidays